Mining-tool car.



- E. PYLE.

MINING TOOL CAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5,1914.

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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1 l l r HI I H I E. PYLE.

MINING TOOL CAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5,1914.-

Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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EDWARD PYLE, OF BUTTE, MONTANA.

MINING-TOOL CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 19115.

Application fi1ed May 5, 1914. Serial No. 836,471.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD PYLE, citizen of the United States, residing at Butte, in the county of Silverbow and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mining- Tool Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the operations of mines and the like, and has for one of its objects to provide a simply constructed vehicle in which the drills and similar tools em ployed by miners may be transported in the mine and retained in convenient position for use, and in which each individual drill or other implement is maintained in readily accessible position, and drills or tools of the various sizes maintained in separate compartments and from which they may be readily removed when required.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device of this character mounted upon carrier wheels adapted to run upon the same tracks in the mine upon which the ordinary mine cars travel.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character constructed in a strong and durable manner convenient for use and in which the drills or other implements are readily accessible.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply.constructed device of this character in which the drills or other implements are protected from displacement during transportation.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and 1n the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Fi ure 1 is a perspective view of the improve car with theparts in closed position. Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective details illustrating the construction. Fig. 4. is a longitudinal vertical section on the line H of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a transverse vert1.- cal section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1. Fig. (5 is a view similar to Fig. 1 illustrating a modification in the construction.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved car is constructed entirely of metal and comprises a back 10, ends the device will be subjected and reinforced at the corners by angle bars 16 and the back .and ends reinforced by a band 17 at their upper edges. The walls of the device are riveted to the supporting members 1617 as shown, The body of the car may be of any required s ze and of any required pro portlons, and it is not desired to limit the device in this respect. Axles 18 are secured to the body of the car and provided with flanged wheels 19, the gage of the wheels being the same as that of thetracks employed mines for transportingthe ordinary mine cars, so that the improved car may be readily transported in the mine, and then lifted from the track at the point where the implements are to be emploved. As before stated, the portion 15 of the front is hingedly united to the portion 14. the hinges being indicated at 21. The por tion 15 1s preferably formed of considerable width so that when in open position a relatively large portion of the interior of the body of the car will be exposed, and to enable the portion 15 to fold flatly against the portlon. 14, the upper edge. of the portion 15 of the front is provided with recesses 22 to engage over the upper portions of the carrier wheels 19. By this means the car when in open position occupies less space than it would otherwise occupv. At its upper edge the portion l5 of the front is provided with a supporting band 23 which is carried around the. recesses 22 as shown. At its ends the band 23 is extended beyond the ends of the portion 15 of the front and bent at right angles thereto as represented at 24 and bears by the right-angled portion against the ends 11 and 12 of the body of the car, the terminals of the band 17. being cut away to permit this disposition of the portions 24;.

Attached to the ends 11-12 of the bodv are catches 25 which project beyond the front edges of the ends and over which open ings 26 in the upper portion 15 of the front extend when the latter is closed, and piroted at 27 to the front member 15 are latches 28 which engage in notches in the members 25 and thus lock the portion 15 of the front in position.

The interior of the body of the car is The drills or other implements are disposed endwise in the various compartments formed by the dividing bands 29, different lengths of the implements being placed in the separate compartments and thus retained in separated condition. Any required number of the bands may be employed and the drills or other implements may be disposed in any required order, but preferably the longer drills will be disposed in the central compartment, while the shorter drills will preferably be disposed in the other compartments, the disposition of thedrills or other implements depending upon the convenience or will of the operator.

Hand holes 32 are formed in the upper part of the front portion 14 and'through the back member 10, to enable the car to be readily moved upon the track, and likewise to receive the hooks of the hoisting devices by which the car is lowered into the mine or removed therefrom.

In Fig. 6 a slight modification in the construction is shown consisting in providing the partition 29 with plates 33 suspended therefrom and forming imperforate partitions within the body of the car to completely separate the compartments and pro venting the shorter drills or other implements from entering the adjoining compartments. When the dividing members 33 are employed, additional bars 34 will likewise generallybe arranged between the front portion 14 and the rear portion 10 to support the members 33.

If preferred, the intermediate bars 34' may likewise be employed in the construction shown in Figs. 1 to 5, as shown.

The improved device is simple in construction, can be inexpensively manufactured and of any required size or strength to adapt it to the quality or size of the implements which it is to hold.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a body having the top and upper portion of the front open and the lower portion of the front closed, partitionmembers connected at one end to the back of the body and extending across the open top and depending in parallel relation to the front and connected at their lower ends to the lower closed front portion, and an upper front portion swingingly united to the lower front portion and bearing against the depending portions of the partition members when closed and supported thereby.

2. A device of the class described comprising a body formed with a lower stationary front portion and a movable upper front portion and carrier wheels externally of said body, said movable front portion adapted to engage over the carrier wheels and protect the same when the movable front portion is in open position.

3. A device of the class described comprising a body mounted upon carrier wheels and open at the top and with afront formed of a lower stationary portion and a movable upper portion, said movable front portion having recesses to engage over the carrier wheels when the movable front porand a movable upper portion, a plurality of partition members connected to the back of the body and to the lower stationary front portion thereof, and plates suspended from the partition members and dividing the body into a plurality of'compartments accessible through the upper front portion when the movable front portion is in open position.

6. A. device of the class described comprising a body open at the top and with a front formed of a lower stationary portion and a movable upper porti0n, a plurality of partition members connected to the back of the body and to the lower stationary front portion thereof, plates suspended from the partition members and dividing the body into a plurality of compartments accessible through the upper front portion when the movable front portion is in open position, and supporting bars connecting the stationary front member and the back of the body.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD PYLE. [1,. s.]

Witnesses:

RICHARD HAMMOND, RICHARD Rows. 

